The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
ADAM SEDGWICK[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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Yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder.
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man’s creation,
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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Our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature’s record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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Indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.
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As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God’s anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.
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